Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-04-02

dictirc."
Friends" he replied. ooh, yes; l know
You told me there was nothing between
you and anybody, and next day l am told
all about Hugh. Call that truthfulness, ]
suppose
II don't believe it. Sapphire"
well, Dick, if you take it like that, I've
got nothing to say"
81 don't care what happens now. II any
thing happens it's your fault-you and all Of
you.'
What will happen, DickT"
Anything may happen, l suppose. How
am l to know what will happenl'
well, Dick" the girl replied, 81 can't
stay to guess riddles. Will you shake hands?'
No. Sapphira!'
Norah retired without another word.
The Office boy thought Of Springfield Jack,
and what he would do under such provoca,
ton. But it was useless. He was not man
enough by several inches.
Half an hour afterward there was another
step on the stairs. Dick FASTENED to assume
the air of a junior partner, and the Office
boy once moro closed the drawer and erasped
the handle of the copying p, ess
This time it was DR.. Hyacinth Cronan.
He was still in the overwhelming wave Of
the first davis enjoyment Of his new honors.
Yet one might have thought that here was
something wanting, as il the full flavor OF
his title had not been quite brought Quit
requires time for the complete enjoyment OF
everything, even a title. His brow was
knitted, as they used to say in the old
m%etaphorical times, when people would knit
q brow as well rs n stocking. and curl al
upper lip as easily as a ringlet, and hurl
s~cornful words as readily and as effectively
as big stones. They could also unhand each
other. He looked, to put the thing plainly,
disturbed.
SIS your father in his Officer he asked,
cutting short Dick Murridge's proposed con-
CALCULATIONS. Il will step in"
81 expected you this morning" said Mr.
Murridgc. II expected you would look in.
You came to talk over the new position.
We'll. / am no: much acclstoincd'-he
laughed q dry l.ugh--'sto advise noble
lords"
You need not trouble about the title.
came especially to ask you about q certain
docunlen, which I signed here two or three
years ago
Quite so. 1t is in ny safe here. For the
cons Iteration OF two hundred pounds
money down-you resign the whole of your
reversionary interests, whatever they might
be-"
II remember the transaction perfectly.
You offered ME two hundred pounds
for my reversionary rights. wanted
the money pretty badly. l always do.
The revcrsionary rights. You explained
to me at the time that there were
two lives between me and the succession. I
thought l had no more chance of the title
than I had of the crown of England Tell
me exactly what it was l sold. There are
other rights besides reversionary rights, I
supposef'
What you sold wal your chance of sue
ceeding to the property of which the late
Lord Clonsiila was only a life tenant"
What made you offer me the money!"
Because l knew that yours was a sub
stantial chance"
But there were two lives, men no older
than myself, between Lord Clonsilla and
myself"
lone Of them, when you signed that paper,
I knew to be suffering from a hopeless disor.
der. He died, in fact, a few weeks after
wards. The other had been married for IF
teen years without children. hoped that
he would ave none. Well, my hopes were
well founded: not only are there no children,
the man himself Is dead. And you are the
new viscount, and what estate there is has
come to me II isn't much, after all"
"You knew this and you did not tell meT'
II did. You thought you knew all about
II, and you did not even take the trouble to